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Schubert The Piano Trios

With Schubert’s centenary year now upon us, it was predictable that the Fontenay Trio would soon enter the field. This...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 2/1997

Berkeley, L Ruth

Only two years ago, at the time of Lennox Berkeley’s centenary, I said that judgements about his operas must be...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 7/2005

Sol y Sombra

Recently, increasing attention has been paid to the music written in Latin America during the renaissance and baroque periods, much...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 9/1999

Forqueray Pièces de Clavecin

‘Forqueray and Son’‚ this really should be‚ and possibly ‘and Daughter­in­Law’ as well. Antoine Forqueray‚ a contemporary of Couperin‚ wrote...

Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 2/2002

Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky - The Mono Years 1952-55

This two-CD set calls itself ‘The Mono Years 1952-55’ to distinguish the recordings from those Stravinsky made in the following...

Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 4/1999

Colin Matthews Orchestral Works

Here are three major works by Colin Matthews (b. 1946), from the mid 1970s (Fourth Sonata), mid 1980s (Suns Dance)...

Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 1/1996

Arnold Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6

Very well played and warmly recorded, this is a welcome addition to the Naxos cycle of Arnold symphonies, coupling two...

Reviewed in issue 6/2001

Pärt Tabula Rasa

The iconic blue, grey and white CD cover has now become a book cover, which, given the original album’s significance,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 1/2011

Bruckner Symphony No 5

Barenboim, like Furtwangler before him, conducts an intensely dramatic account of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic. And, like...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1993

Rossini Overtures

Chailly here repeats the success of his earlier collection of Rossini overtures (Decca SXDL7534, 10/81), losing nothing of the geniality...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/1985

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